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<blockquote data-quote="NickBD" data-source="post: 742226" data-attributes="member: 72642">The backline scored more tries then any other backline in the 6N. Also looked very impressive against France. I think you&#039;re being way too critical to say it will struggle to make it out of the group.&nbsp; The starting 15 that will play in world cup (bar Launch/Lawes starting and Barritt for Burrell) has beaten both Wales and Oz over past 2 years so I&#039;m not too worried. I think that squad will be comfortably better then the Welsh squad and you could argue the Oz one too.I don&#039;t get the negativity over players who won&#039;t play like Burgess, May and Goode. Cips wouldn&#039;t have played anyway, Slade would get his bench spot cause he can cover more positions. The starting backs would be Youngs, Ford, Nowell, Barritt, JJ, Watson, Brown with the bench backs will be Care, Farrell and Slade even if Cips got picked. It&#039;s a great squad outside of New Zealand as good as any other nation. A few question marks, but likes of Burgess for me is a risk worth taking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NickBD, post: 742226, member: 72642"] The backline scored more tries then any other backline in the 6N. Also looked very impressive against France. I think you're being way too critical to say it will struggle to make it out of the group. The starting 15 that will play in world cup (bar Launch/Lawes starting and Barritt for Burrell) has beaten both Wales and Oz over past 2 years so I'm not too worried. I think that squad will be comfortably better then the Welsh squad and you could argue the Oz one too. I don't get the negativity over players who won't play like Burgess, May and Goode. Cips wouldn't have played anyway, Slade would get his bench spot cause he can cover more positions. The starting backs would be Youngs, Ford, Nowell, Barritt, JJ, Watson, Brown with the bench backs will be Care, Farrell and Slade even if Cips got picked. It's a great squad outside of New Zealand as good as any other nation. A few question marks, but likes of Burgess for me is a risk worth taking. [/QUOTE]

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